At 2:08 PM -0500 11/6/07, Aaron Sherber wrote:
Hi all,
I'm curious as to how you feel about notating sub-beat rests in
compound meters. In particular, something like a 6/8 bar with two
eighths of silence and an eighth pickup to a dotted quarter on beat
2. Should the rests at the beginning of the bar be two eighth rests,
or a quarter rest?
Not appealing to authority or anything, but our string orchestra was
rehearsing something last night in 12/8 (might have been the Corelli
Christmas Concerto), and it was always quarter rests rather than a
string of 8th rests. Anyone who tries to read a quarter rest as
representing a full beat is simply inexperienced.
My personal feeling is that it's easier to group the beats visually
with the fewest rests, sort of like reducing an equation to its
lowest form. And for the same reason I favor beaming 8ths in vocal
music as I would in instrumental music. Others may have different
taste.
John
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